Gabe Rivera

Weird to see left-wing/progressive people here posting in support of media using images of blocks of text lifted from news articles without any link or attribution.

It's like they're content transplanting the media-hostile norms of Elon's Twitter to this site.

I’m launching Sources, a new publication about the tech industry’s inside conversation, and Access, a tech interview podcast with my friend @hamburger.bsky.social.

The first issue of Sources drops tomorrow, featuring an interview with Mark Zuckerberg, which airs in full on Access this Thursday.

“Ignore what's on Bluesky or Threads”: If you've heard this, it's probably from someone popular on X who's gotten dogpiled by the fringe left on Bluesky. And to be clear, these dynamics are real, unpleasant, and something I would imagine Bluesky management considers a problem, since repelling notable posters can crimp overall growth. But the typical experience for a typical Bluesky user is not unlike classic Twitter: people follow people they're interested in and interactions are generally positive. Moreover, in part by not imposing the “link penalty”, enough journalists who joined Bluesky in prior years have stuck around that it often feels like the current home of “tech journalism Twitter”, along with the sort of conversations that extend from that. Threads has gotten a bad rap for similar reasons, though with Meta shepherding millions of users each week to the app, the userbase now feels very normie. A lot of journalists and other news pundits in tech consider this an audience they can't ignore, so you'll find tech news-relevant conversations there as well. So while neither network has surpassed X in terms of tech industry news commentary (and both have a long way to go on AI, VC, and crypto chatter), if you care what people say on X, you should keep an eye on the other networks too.

So I wrote a thing on the occasion of @techmeme.com's 20th birthday, and I couldn't help but drag Bluesky into it (don't dogpile me please). news.techmeme.com/250912/20-ye...

Lyra McKee RIP honoured in Washington for her Journalism LGBTQ + Journalists Hall of Fame

www.nlgja.org/blog/2025/09...

Well, first trying to see if word can mostly spread other ways, because there's a potential spam problem if it's too widely known...

For top level links: techmeme.com/tip ... for secondary links, press Add Link Here under any headline on our desktop page...

let them eat slop

The idea here is that the resulting headline has the word "convince" which is the tell!

Ok, mainly for fun, I added hidden text that only appears when you copy and paste from www.techmeme.com/jobs

Try pasting question #3 into ChatGPT and see what happens!

This should make it very easy to tell when people hastily use AI to complete the application. 🤭

Hallucinated Semafor URL.

…I suppose the funny part is some people cheat *so* shamelessly. One applicant even answered question #4 with a nonexistent hallucinated Semafor story URL:

Funny-but-sad situation involving AI and hiring: we revamped our application questions here techmeme.com/jobs to make them more "AI-proof". So if your answers came from ChatGPT, it's typically easy for us to tell.

The sad part is over half the applicants get "no thanks" in part because of this and…

And BTW, it's fine to submit posts from yourself or colleagues. And it's also fine to submit posts from others. You'll even get an email if/when the post hits Techmeme!

impossible, all your posts are bangers!

Add Link Here button appears in the lower right-hand corner when you hover over a headline!

As many of you know, Bluesky posts routinely appear on Techmeme. We source them a number of ways...

Now there's a new way: *you* can add posts from our desktop homepage! Look for the button in the image below. Our editors need to approve your submission, but will for anything they deem value-add.

A little weird when a serious news pub uses a comically unflattering image of someone in a story. But no, not gonna say who, because on second thought, I believe all people are equally beautiful at all times, unlike you, jerk.

🙈

Indeed. Ben has been working for months to penetrate this chat but our secops are too formidable...

Oh yikes, indeed, noting, thanks...

Yes, my handle was "Tucker Carlson"...

Fun read on the hidden role of these chats, even if the prevailing ideas emerging from them still ended up posted in public by the participants...and even though Trump's election mainly hinged on factors like inflation and not who rich tech guys publicly supported.

The Incredible Life and Tragic Death of Lyra McKee When the the twenty-nine-year-old journalist was killed in a riot, in Creggan, Ireland, it was implied that somehow her death had happened in the pursuit of Irish freedom. But Lyra embodied Irish free...

It's somehow been six years since the murder of Lyra McKee. She'd be in her mid-30s now--which seems impossibly old--and lapping the journalism field. newyorker.com/news/postscript/the-incredible-life-and-tragic-death-of-lyra-mckee

This account excerpts and links to tweets (i.e. X posts) linked to from Techmeme's homepage.

‣ Follow if that sounds useful to you
‣ Do not follow if that sounds awful to you 😀
‣ For *Bluesky* posts on Techmeme, follow @chatter.techmeme.com
‣ For the main Techmeme headlines, follow @techmeme.com

Thinking of setting up an X-specific Techmeme Chatter account here. So every tweet linked to from Techmeme would get a Bluesky post.

Obviously many people here don't wanna see those links, so it would be separate from @chatter.techmeme.com, (which quotes the Bluesky posts Techmeme links to.)

The logo and website, for my new business Upstarts Media, upstartsmedia.com

I am thrilled to announce the launch of my new tech media brand, Upstarts Media 🎉

Upstarts will focus on the startup ecosystem, from inception through IPO 📈

We launch a twice-weekly Upstarts newsletter next week. Video, podcast, and events to follow!

Read more: open.substack.com/pub/upstarts...

There are still eyebrow-raising realignments to discover if you scroll around long enough...

(link: x.com/nicknotned/s... )

Remembering Kevin Drum talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/remem...

Here are the WSJ tech journalists whose jobs were eliminated - Talking Biz News Here are The Wall Street Journal journalists whose jobs were eliminated on Tuesday: Reporters: Asa Fitch — a reporter covering the semiconductor companies, including Intel, Nvidia and Qualcomm. Prior ...

Yesterday it became public that a bunch of my colleagues on the WSJ tech team were let go in a reorg.

I want to emphasize that these are *fantastically* talented, smart, deeply sourced reporters. Anyone scooping up talent right now, I'm happy to make an intro:

talkingbiznews.com/media-news/h...

Oh, DNS propagation issue I think. Flushing might help!

Sorry! Should be back now!